Reproducibility package for "Clock-Controlled Ternary Sequence Generators over GF(3): Exact Periods, Statistical Structure, and Cryptanalytic Comparison of Single-Branch and Three-Branch Nonlinear Architectures"
Sep 2026· Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Abstract
Sanitized code and data reproducibility package for a manuscript currently under double-blind review at the Journal of Information Security and Applications. Author identity is withheld pending the outcome of review. The package contains two independently generated archives: (1) model-I-single-branch/ — a single clock-controlled ternary LFSR generator over GF(3) (controller LFSR A + data LFSR B), together with its exact period and design-condition checkers, a statistical analysis suite, a 14-family ternary long-sequence test battery, and a cryptanalytic attack suite (basic correlation, embedding, fast correlation, Berlekamp-Massey reconstruction, and a linear-consistency/clock-control attack). Includes all 40 archived experiment runs across 8 controller/data degree configurations. (2) model-II-three-branch/ — a three-branch clock-controlled generator over GF(3) combined through a quadratic nonlinear ternary function, together with period/design analysis, algebraic/spectral characterization of the combiner, an aggregate statistical pipeline, avalanche diffusion experiments, a matched attack suite, and an exact key-stream-reuse detector. A full SHA-256 manifest (MANIFEST_SHA256.tsv) and verification script (verify_checksums.py) are included to allow integrity checking of every file. See README.md for directory structure, provenance notes, a documented anonymity sanitization log, and instructions to reproduce all reported results. See CORRESPONDENCE.md for a mapping between source files and the tables/figures of the manuscript. Source code (*.py, *.bat) is released under the MIT License. Generated data, results, logs, CSV aggregates, and figures are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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